Abstracting Scientific And Technical Literature

Introduction; User groups, Clients, and audiences; Managing abstracting operations; Contents; Selecting material for abstracting; First step: citing the reference; Kinds of abstracts; Next step: abstract proper; Some special cases; Providing access to abstracts; Grouping and indexing; In-house abstracting bulletins; The role of the abstractor in literature searching; Auxiliary services; Bridging the time gap with abstracts; The abstractor, computers, and information systems; Evaluating abstractors and abstracting.